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From the bestselling satirist and memoirist Neal Pollack comes a funny, gritty historical noir about a tough Jew on the brink and about a great American game coming into its own. 1937. The gears of world war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, America's greatest basketball team, is dealing with his own problems. His coach has unwittingly incurred a massive gambling debt to the German-American Bund. His main basketball rival is self-righteously leading public protests against the rise of homegrown American fascism. And his girlfriend wants him to join a Jewish student organization that's all talk and no action. It's more than Inky can deliver. He just wants to play ball and occasionally beat people up for money. The tides of history are flowing against a guy like Inky. Can he make his free throws and still make it through the season alive? This...is Jewball.
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About the Author:
Neal Pollack is the author of five previous books, including the bestselling memoirs Alternadad and Stretch, the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature, and the rock novel Never Mind the Pollacks. A longtime contributor to countless magazines, websites, and anthologies, Pollack lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.
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- PublisherCreatespace
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1466472626
- ISBN 13 9781466472624
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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